let me make a guess. since it differs at the distro level (debian vs redhat, as indicated in the dmesg output), i guessed there is nothing wrong at the kernel level. auto-loading of hardware drivers are done by udev....perhaps it is not configured by the OS during installation? u may need to add it manually at the udev level. and to prove that both the kernel can detect the hardware, perhaps u can issue "lsusb -v" and both output should be the same? Thanks for your reply Both the kernels are working in same distro - Debian Lenny, Thats is why i cant find out the error, when the kernel A boots its detects the audio devices and loads the snd-hda-codec-realtek, but kernel B doesnot detects that audio device only but its loading network modules and other necessary modules correctly -Welkin- |